main purpose rule
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 291 U.S. 610 - Ex parte Baldwin · 1934Most cited · 399 citing opinions
exclusive jurisdiction
The exclusive jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court is determined by the main purpose of the suit. The claim for damages is merely an incident.
How often courts cite the case defining “main purpose rule”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “main purpose rule” — 398 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.